Crossword-Solution: DECADENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decadent | a. | Decaying; deteriorating. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DECADENT | anagram | DECANTED |
We have 33 clues for the answer “DECADENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like the eaters of rich chocolate desserts? | 1 answer |
| In moral decline | 1 answer |
| In decline due to self-indulgence | 1 answer |
| Gone to seed morally | 1 answer |
| Going into decline | 1 answer |
| Beyond lavish | 1 answer |
| Appealing to self-indulgent impulses | 1 answer |
| Like Rome in A.D. 400 | 1 answer |
| Like calorie-laden desserts | 1 answer |
| Marked by moral collapse | 1 answer |
| Overripe | 1 answer |
| Reflecting a state of moral decline | 1 answer |
| Regressing | 1 answer |
| What dictators call democracies. | 1 answer |
| characterized by decay or decline, as in being self-indulgent or morally corrupt | 1 answer |
| Morally degenerate | 2 answers |
| Self-indulgent | 3 answers |
| Morally corrupt | 5 answers |
| On the Decline | 5 answers |
| decaying | 7 answers |
| Just O.K. | 7 answers |
| Debased | 18 answers |
| Effete | 37 answers |
| Debauched | 48 answers |
| Luxurious | 52 answers |
| sybaritic | 53 answers |
| Hedonistic | 54 answers |
| dissolute | 54 answers |
| Degenerate | 60 answers |
| Decayed | 65 answers |
| Immoral | 76 answers |
| Corrupt | 76 answers |
| Decline | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DECADENT (5)
Like many ISO standards, this one has a faintly alien ring in North America, where hackers generally shun the decadent British practice of adulterating perfectly good tea with dairy products and prefer instead to add a wedge of lemon, if anything.
Straight to La he came and in the language of the great apes which was also the language of decadent Opar he addressed her.
Further on, a hedgehog lay dead athwart the path--nay, more than dead; decadent, distinctly; a sorry sight for one that had known the fellow in more bustling circumstances.
But to pierce below these externals is to come on a vacuity of any sterling quality, a deliquescence of the moral nature, a frivolity and inconsequence of purpose that mark the nearly perfect fruit of a decadent age.
That religious result is the reform of the decadent Christianity of to-day, its simplification, its purification, and its reinforcement by the facts of spirit communion and the clear knowledge of what lies beyond the exit-door of death.
Quotes with DECADENT (3)
Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring deep mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent, depraved hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain.
In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end — the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility — but the other side of love, its cruelty, sterility and duplicity. In a way, the decadents did accept Nordau's idea of the artist as monster. But in nature, the glory and panacea of romanticism, they found nothing. Theirs is an aesthetic that disavows the natural and with it the …
In a society, IF people place intellect and ethics above money & material , the nation is on the ascendancy. But when it is the reverse, that is, money and material are more important, then it is an indication that the nation is becoming decadent.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).